So, I'm used to developing in interpreted languages. I have been hired on to work in C#. I am familiar with compilation and can use it, however being able to work with interpreted languages has gotten ...

We are revising some makefiles that date back to the 1990s. The makefiles include support DJGPP (also see DJGPP on Wikipedia). If DJGPP is no longer a popular platform, then I would like to remove the ...

I'm writing a toy compiler for fun.
Basically, my problem is that I don't want to clutter the AST with stuff like debug information (symbol tokens, locations of tokens, etc) as well as data that the ...

I can understand the fact that Java needs both a compiler and an interpreter. It compiles source code to bytecode and then a virtual machine (on Windows, on Linux, on Android, etc.) translates that ...

One of the main drawbacks of Ruby/Python is performance. I understand that they are interpreted and C is compiled. (And there are things like JRuby which do JIT compilation with Ruby). But they never ...

Suppose I'm reviewing code that job applicants send to prove their skills. Clearly I don't want to run executables they send. Not so clearly I'd rather not run the result of compilation of their code ...

I've been learning ANTLR, by writing my own (extremely simple!) programming language
It made me curious about how the lexer/parser/AST is implemented for java. Obviously there is a grammar for .java ...

Java is often praised for its amazing portability, which I presume is because of the JVM. My question is what stops C from being being compiled/interpreted/JIT'ed.., if so, C can also be write once ...

From my understanding the default Python interpreter(CPython) compiles source code into bytecode and then interprets the bytecode into machine code. PyPy on the other hand makes use of JIT to optimize ...

I'm really interested in writing my own general-purpose high-level programming language, but I'm somewhat confused.
I know that Python and Ruby were written in C, which makes me wonder that if I want ...

I know the visitor pattern is typically used to traverse a hierarchy of heterogeneous objects (inheriting a same abstract object) and dissociate the processing of these objects from the data within ...

Is ART a strict improvement over Dalvik, or there are optimizations that an ahead-of-time compiler will miss compared to JIT, but Google decide they don't matter in practice?
For example, with JIT, ...

I've always wanted to learn how to write a compiler - I've decided to use ANTLR, and am currently reading through the book (its very good by the way)
I'm pretty new to this, so go easy, but the jist ...

The Sun Compiler Tree API uses an interface called Tree as the parent of all the different kinds of parse tree nodes (assignments, if-statements, class declarations, etc.). A part of this interface is ...

This is a hypothetical, yet very technically precise question I'm trying to ask all the compiler/static analysis programmers.
I'm trying to understand the extent of prohibitive features I would need ...

C is one of the most widely-used languages in the world. It accounts for a huge proportion of existing code and continues to be used for a vast amount of new code. It's beloved by its users, it's so ...

If we had a universal interpreter for all available features of programming languages we could use a specializer to generate compilers for all languages. We could simply use any language as source (or ...

So, I was reading about bootstrapping, compilers, and the classic example of writing support for escape sequence support came up, where a program is written with a short snippet referring each escape ...

I've been writing a Parser Compiler for the last seven or so years, and I recently got to the point (yet again, never satisfied) of structuring the portion dealing with the portions of the language ...

I see Javascript 6 will add traditional class based inheritance, and one argument I hear is that classes are inherently much faster than prototypes because they can be optimized away by the compiler ...

In current C++ when body of if statements contain only one command then:
Parenthesis around if condition are mandatory but block are optional. So, both examples are OK:
if ( condition ) { return 0; ...